 Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends...  Littell's Living Age - Página 2271850Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1829 - 528 páginas
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." In proof, however, of the innate cowardice of this formidable... | |
 | 1829 - 466 páginas
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches. it in bis grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.' In... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1830 - 648 páginas
...oilier, displaying, in the rencounter, the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unincumbcred eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...in his grasp, ere it reaches the water, and bears it silently away to the woods." The bald eagle also destroys quadrupeds, as lambs, pigs, &c. ; and... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1830 - 650 páginas
...most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unincumbered eagle rapidly advances, and ie just ou the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden...in his grasp, ere it reaches the water, and bears it silently away to the woods." The bald eagle also destroys quadrupeds, as lambs, pigs, &c. ; and... | |
 | George Montagu - 1831 - 670 páginas
...other, displaying in the rencontre the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unincumbered Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. " These predatory attacks and defensive manoeuvres of... | |
 | 1831 - 472 páginas
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. These predatory attacks and defensive manœuvres of the... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 426 páginas
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. These predatory attacks and defensive mano3uvres of the... | |
 | Edward Turner Bennett - 1831 - 346 páginas
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unincumbered Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...his grasp, ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill gotten booty silently away to the woods." Sometimes, however, the Fish-Hawks assemble in bands... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 522 páginas
...the other, displaying in these' rencontres the most elegant and sublime evolutions. The unincumbered Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it readies the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. The predatory attacks... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - 1832 - 472 páginas
...other, displaying in those rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. These predatory attacks, and defensive manoeuvres of the... | |
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